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West Ham must do all they can to ensure William Carvalho and a new defender are in a claret and blue shirt come the end of the transfer window.

A third successive defeat, this time a dismal loss at the hands of Newcastle United, means Slaven Bilic is facing a critical week in the transfer market.

Although the club have brought in Joe Hart, Pablo Zabaleta, Marko Arnautovic and Javier Hernandez during the summer, it’s evident that the team still need to strengthen before Thursday’s deadline.

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Given the money spent by the club in the transfer window, David Gold and David Sullivan are going to need to shell out some more cash to ensure the Hammers don’t suffer another season of disappointment.

This team shouldn’t have lost all three of their opening games.

If the Hammers don’t add to their squad, they will, quite simply, have a long, hard season ahead of themselves.

Mark Noble was poor at Newcastle (Image: Getty Images)

Bilic’s team are missing that bite in midfield and Carvalho can provide that.

While the majority of club’s fans would have loved to have seen the Portuguese international lining up at St James’ Park today, unfortunately the club haven’t been able to come to terms with Sporting Lisbon for the Euro 2016 winner.

Carvalho wants to move to the capital and West Ham desperately want him, yet Lisbon are proving rather difficult to deal with.

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Declan Rice once again lined up alongside Mark Noble in central midfield and he performed well until his half-time substitution.

Although he lost the ball in the build-up to Joselu’s opener, the 18-year-old produced a number of interceptions and utilised the ball well.

As good as Rice has performed so far this season, he’s not the answer that the Hammers are currently looking for.